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“Very interesting theory - it makes no sense at all”
Groucho Marx Comedian
One of the surest and fastest ways to bring anything into your experience is to concentrate on the feelings you’ll have when you achieve your goal. Focusing on the goal, itself, usually brings up feelings of “Why isn’t it here yet?” So make it your business to focus on the feeling you expect that goal to give
you. This concept applies to anything in life you want.
Once again, this tool is a liberal application of something quantum physics has taught us: In the physical world, like attracts like. You’ve heard this principal discussed as the
“law of attraction.” I can assure you the law of attraction is actually real, and its underpinnings are found in the realm of science.
For our physical, human experience, we should pay attention to our feelings, for it is our feelings that tell us what we’re attracting and bringing into our experience. Have you ever struck a tuning fork and heard how it vibrates? You probably know that a vibrating tuning fork will cause any other tuning fork, tuned to the same pitch, to begin vibrating in unison with it.
Think of your feelings as a tuning fork and think of the people, places, things, and experiences of your life as millions of tuning forks filling up the entire universe. When you ring your tuning fork, when you feel your feelings, all the tuning forks (the people, places, things, and experiences) that are tuned the same will begin to ring also. This is a literal explanation of the law of attraction in action.
As with the first tool, this one presents you with what might be a huge shift and might also be challenging for you to believe. But if you’re willing to try this tool, I believe you’ll find enough amazing results that you’ll soon be an
unqualified convert.
To start using this tool right away, create a list of good feelings you expect to have when you achieve your desired goals. Whatever your list consists of, it will become even more powerful if you write it down on a piece of paper. And try to feel those feelings, right now, as you write them down.
Do not wait until something happens to “make” you feel these feelings; feel them for no “outside” reason at all. Try to feel them as often as possible each day, no matter what is going on around you. Give yourself permission to feel them right now and bask in their glow. To remind yourself, jot each list item on a small notepad and stick copies on your mirror, your desk at work, your computer screen, and your car dashboard.
Why will this work for you? If you’re like most people, it has felt like you’ve been focusing on what you want, yet you’ve actually been focused on its absence—the fact that it is not there yet. If your goal is weight loss, for example, and the weight loss hasn’t happened yet, you’re constantly focused on some version of “Where is my weight loss? It’s not here. I wish I would lose the weight.” That is an example of focusing on the lack, or absence, of your desire.
And because like attracts like in our universe, you get what you focus on: “It’s not here yet.” Focusing on the feelings you want, by feeling those feelings as often as possible, will bring dramatic results.
By feeling the fantastic feelings you previously put off feeling, you are ringing your tuning fork at a new and
different frequency, one that sounds like “I am successful, I am sexy, I am free, I am healthy, etc.” And now,
automatically, other tuning forks tuned to the same frequency will begin to vibrate in unison with you. Like-tuned people, places, things, and experiences will begin to manifest and come to you. They will all be attracted to your feeling vibrations. It is the law of our universe.
Remember the old saying “I’ll believe it when I see it?”
You’re going to find out that the correct way to state it is “I’ll see it when I believe it.” Because, by feeling the feelings of your success before the success is in your material reality, the universe will automatically begin bringing to you those people, places, things, and experiences that will make that success manifest in your material reality. It will feel like magic if you really make an effort to feel those feelings you listed as often as possible each day.
Take it easy on yourself as you practice this, though. You’ve spent your entire life looking at “what is” and focusing on the absence of the things you desire, saying, “Where is it?” Don’t beat up on yourself when you lapse back into your old habits.
Just take that as a reminder that you’re not perfect yet (and aren’t supposed to be) and start feeling your desired feelings again.